The Best Surreal Games

Update : What\'s Missing? added at rank #1.
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What's Missing? (2024)

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PC Windows

What's Missing? is a first-person, surreal puzzle game where you spot the differences between repeating identical rooms. Explore the limits of changes as it goes beyond just physical objects. Follow Gregory's journey to escape this magical loop and unveil the mystery of his dark past...

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  • surreal
  • hidden-object
  • psychological
  • word
  • exploration
  • mystery
  • typing
  • first-person
  • linear
  • emotional
  • puzzle
  • 3d

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Seven Skies to Paradise (2024)

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Mac OS PC Windows

Take control of your airship and embark on an emotional journey through the Seven Skies. - Thrilling dogfights, alien landscapes and mysterious enigmas await on the path to Paradise.

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  • emotional
  • hand-drawn
  • surreal
  • walking-simulator
  • atmospheric
  • lovecraftian
  • 2d
  • action-adventure
  • colourful
  • abstract
  • story
  • sci-fi
  • exploration

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The Consumist Journey (2024)

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PC Windows

The Consumist Journey is a surreal exploration game where you play as a strange character on a quest to explore the capitalist and consumerist paradigms of modern society. Navigate through bizarre and nonsensical environments, solve puzzles, and interact with eccentric characters.

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  • solitaire
  • surreal
  • trivia
  • tutorial
  • walking-simulator
  • immersive
  • life
  • fiction
  • narration
  • simulation
  • hidden-object
  • linear
  • psychological
  • third-person
  • historical

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Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story (2024)

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42 of the weirdest, trippiest, sheepiest games ever created. Enter the mind of Jeff Minter, the legendary creator of Attack of the Mutant Camels, Gridrunner, and Tempest 2000, in this interactive documentary from Digital Eclipse.


  • platform
  • precision
  • psychedelic
  • documentary
  • controller-support
  • shoot-em-up
  • shooter
  • interactive
  • surreal
  • 1980s
  • arcade
  • abstract
  • retro
  • pixel
  • 1990s

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Phenom Overdrive (2024)

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PC Windows

A space adventure across colorful and abstract environments with simple controls and mechanics. Featuring precise, physics based, action. Sometimes a fast-paced thrill. Sometimes a slightly methodic thinker. Sometimes, even, a rage inducing dread. Always exhilarating.

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  • abstract
  • scroller
  • surreal
  • science
  • linear
  • action-adventure
  • multiple-endings
  • sci-fi
  • space
  • survival
  • old-school
  • physics
  • supernatural
  • colourful
  • difficult

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Barbotine (2024)

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PC Windows

An atmospheric horror micro-game that touches on topics of anxiety, isolation, body image and obsessive habits with a surreal PSX aesthetic.

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  • 1990s
  • surreal
  • psychological
  • psychedelic
  • lovecraftian
  • abstract
  • first-person
  • dark
  • stylized
  • horror
  • atmospheric
  • magic
  • old-school
  • walking-simulator
  • minimalist

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REVEIL - Funhouse Edition (2024)

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Xbox One

Funhouse Edition
 In addition to REVEIL, the Funhouse Edition contains the following DLCs: -REVEIL Original Soundtrack: 14 original compositions, beautiful and haunting. 
-Digital Artbook: A look behind the scenes of the game, featuring concept art and inspirations. 
-Black and White Camera Filter: Use this in game for vintage horror atmosphere. 
-Audio Plays: A selection of audio plays recorded with the game's voice actors, more bits and pieces from the world of REVEIL. 
-Developer Commentary: Commentary by the developers to be found in-game, for even more background insights.

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  • driven
  • surreal
  • horror
  • psychedelic
  • psychological
  • narrative

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Raige (2024)

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PC Windows

Become one with Raige: a disturbing and confronting encounter with a grim world, its inhabitants, and yourself.

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  • action-adventure
  • post-apocalyptic
  • exploration
  • 3d
  • surreal
  • linear
  • rpg
  • abstract
  • first-person
  • dark
  • atmospheric
  • story
  • mature
  • walking-simulator
  • adventure

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Project Ictos (2024)

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Linux PC Windows

Avoid everything, touch nothing, and reach a screen edge!

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  • bullet-hell
  • surreal
  • linear
  • minimalist
  • 2d
  • pixel
  • arcade
  • difficult
  • dark
  • casual
  • controller-support
  • soundtrack

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Please, Touch the Artwork 2 (2024)

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A handpainted cozy hidden object adventure. Explore a surreal world. Collect items for its quirky inhabitants. Fix damaged paintings and solve casual puzzles. Help a lost skeleton painter find his way home. This game is short but 100% FREE (no ads, no dlc's).


  • hidden-object
  • dark
  • surreal
  • zen-puzzle
  • point-and-click
  • casual
  • narrative-adventure
  • puzzle
  • humor
  • cats
  • adventure
  • hand-drawn
  • colourful
  • friends-and-family
  • exploration

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